Thanks to you all for the nice comments, good advices and beautiful image versions! The next days I will try it out (very busy …) - and I am fully convinced that I am now able to “remove the head” . After that I will post my version …
Hi all, thanks to your advices it was quite easy to get “rid of the head”! Without having seen the post of @Popanz my idea was also to go for BW. See below.
From the perspective of a regular person viewing this photo in a frame on a wall, they will never notice that blip.
But, if you have reasonable cause to remove it, you could use the availability of open water to the right. Select a portion of that water as wide as the spot. Then, copy/paste and move the copy to a new layer. Then drag it to the left and do some blending with the erase tool, or whatever.
Philosophically, you are using part of the real image to obscure another portion of the real image. It is perhaps less fake than other approaches.
There is no “real image”.
Vision is an interpretative process, dependent on all the experiences we already have stored in our brains, and it’s constantly tricking us.
EDIT: It would be even more correct to say that vision is a construction process.
(Cameras also interpret what their sensors register. )
If saume saw the scene without any other human there, he should not hesitate to also create an image without.
To be honest: this image puts a lonely coast and isolated cabin in your mind, but he reality is very different - don’t want to destroy any associations but this is close to badhytten in skanör …
But that’s what photography can be about: take what’s in front of your camera and create “your” vision …